Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Giant of Light

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However, since the two look almost identical, over time everyone has been calling them "phantoms".

In an instant, Lu Yunhe's figure filled the entire battlefield, launching an attack on everyone.

Faced with Lu Yunhe's illusionary attack, everyone instantly realized the gap between themselves and him, and they all used their best skills... and then prepared to escape.

However, those who had not even comprehended the fundamental laws were killed by Lu Yunhe's illusionary body in a single exchange.

Those like Demon Hand, who had some understanding of the fundamental laws, were barely able to withstand one or two attacks. Literally, one or two attacks meant they could withstand the attacks of two illusory bodies without dying completely, but there were three illusory bodies surrounding them.

"A full 90 illusory bodies! Our defeat was not unjust!"

With the defensive power of the Earth Origin Law and his special talent of a third hand, the Demon Hand barely withstood a round of simultaneous attacks from three illusory bodies and did not die completely.

With his special talent, even those whose fundamental laws are slightly stronger than his would be unable to withstand a sudden attack in battle.

However, even the strongest fists can't fight against many hands. At this moment, the Demon Hand finally understood the feeling of the person he had ambushed.

Each of his illusory forms was far more powerful than him, and they attacked at the same time. Unless he had three heads and six arms, he would not be able to withstand such an attack.

After enduring just one round, the Demon Hand was already covered in wounds and could only cling to life by relying on the Earth Origin Law.

"Failed!"

With only his last breath left, the Demon Hand looked around and found that only Lu Yunhe's illusion and he were still standing. The others had also withdrawn from the elimination rounds without a second glance.

"and many more!"

Just then, the Demon Hand suddenly realized something was wrong: "Why are there only 87 illusions?"

With his stellar-level awareness, he discovered something was wrong with just a scan of his demonic hand. There were only 87 illusory bodies of Lu Yunhe on the battlefield, even though there should have been 30 of them.

After its heart was pierced by the primordial divine weapon, the demonic hand finally reacted, letting out a final, unwilling roar:

"Grey Sword!"

Chapter 89 The end of the qualifiers

"God of Slaughter, I have done what you asked me to do. I owe you nothing now."

After all the attackers had died, Gray Sword spoke slowly, without a trace of regret in his eyes.

"Thank you!"

Lu Yunhe nodded, put away his illusionary form, and signaled that Gray Sword could leave on its own.

That's right, the entire ambush was planned by Lu Yunhe long ago, or rather, it was an idea that Gray Sword helped to come up with.

Just a few days ago, Lu Yunhe unexpectedly encountered Gray Sword. Just as he was about to kill him, Gray Sword surrendered and even offered to help him come up with a plan.

That is, by leveraging Gray Sword's connections, he gathered the world's top geniuses together to ambush and kill Lu Yunhe.

Lu Yunhe didn't care about Gray Sword's little scheme; on the contrary, he was very interested in the plan.

The so-called stellar-level geniuses are just moving points to him. As long as he can get through this wave, he can easily take the world's number one spot.

Ultimately, Gray Sword and Lu Yunhe finalized their plan, which led to this conspiracy.

As the key figure in this plan, Lu Yunhe also promised to spare Gray Sword in the end and not hunt him down.

"goodbye!"

Gray Sword cautiously observed Lu Yunhe, and after confirming that the other party had no intention of killing him, he quickly disappeared into the snow.

"What a lucrative opportunity!"

Looking at his nearly one billion points, Lu Yunhe casually found a spot under the aurora and sat down cross-legged, slowly waiting for the qualifiers to end.

With his current points, it's almost impossible for those behind him to catch up, so he's too lazy to bother killing them.

The entire preliminary elimination round lasts for 30 days. Days 1-20 are the "death period," during which many underperforming participants are eliminated. Days 20-25 are the "crazy period," where everyone is chasing points, and the approximate rankings of the entire world region gradually become fixed.

The last five days were a bit more extreme. Contestants close to the top 1000 were frantically looking for opponents, while the top-ranked contestants, unable to take first place, mostly tried their best to preserve themselves and survive until the end of the qualifiers.

After all, if you can't win the world number one ranking, there's not much difference between being ranked in the top ten and being ranked in the top one hundred.

In the 66th World Zone, Lu Yunhe's final killing caused the entire zone to fall into an eerie calm, leaving only those whose scores hovered around 1000th place still in a frenzy.

The others tried their best to hide themselves to avoid becoming targets of the God of Slaughter. However, they were unaware that Lu Yunhe had no intention of making any more moves after stabilizing his position as the world's number one.

As time passed, the 30-day preliminary elimination rounds gradually came to an end.

First World Zone!

"We can't kill anymore!"

Luo Feng, who had been wreaking havoc in the world zone, gradually regained his clarity. If he continued killing like this, he would secure first place in the world zone by the end of the qualifiers.

Even now, Luo Feng's points have reached number 1 in the world region, leaving the second place by a quarter.

"I'm giving you a chance!"

Luo Feng looked at the wind wheel he had ravaged. The other party had also comprehended the fundamental law of wind and was very powerful, but it was still no match for him.

"what?"

Upon hearing Luo Feng's words, Feng Lun was somewhat taken aback, only to find that his attack had easily penetrated the opponent's Divine Weapon and struck the opponent's body.

Although Luo Feng possesses formidable overall strength, everyone is on par in terms of physical attributes, falling within the realm of the ninth rank of the Stellar Realm.

Therefore, after being hit by the attack from the wind wheel, which contained the fundamental law of wind, Luo Feng's body was instantly torn apart, and he lost half of his points, dropping to second place in the world zone.

"Damn it!"

Looking at his skyrocketing points, even though he had directly secured a spot in the finals, Feng Lun felt no excitement whatsoever.

World Zone 72!

Hong, currently inside the Planet Building, is still pursuing his goals and trying to increase his points as much as possible.

After 30 days of frenzied killing, Hong completely released the dark shadows in his heart, as if he had returned to the time when he first became an assassin.

"prick!"

With another enemy killed, Hong's ranking in the world has risen from 11th to 10th.

As the qualifiers were about to end, Hong, who had been sharp and full of killing intent, instantly calmed down and became completely still, as if he had been a different person just now.

As the world's number one person in terms of mental state, Hong's control over his body and even his mind has reached an unparalleled level.

As for Thor from the 88th World Zone, he still lost at the last moment, his points dropped out of the top 1000, and he missed the chance to participate in this Genius Battle.

……

Under the aurora borealis, Lu Yunhe sat quietly cross-legged on the snow, waiting for the preliminaries to end.

"Countdown to the end of the preliminary selection: 60...59...58...57...56..." A majestic and deep voice echoed in the minds of all survivors in the 100 world zones, causing many martial artists in the various world zones to become somewhat impatient.

"Brother 1000, this is 1001. If you commit suicide now and get out, I'll send you an entire galaxy..."

"Brother 1001, I'm 1002. If you let me kill you once now, I'll give you a cosmic empire when we get out!!!"

"That's too late."

"kill."

"Die to me..."

In the final countdown, chaos reigned in all world zones. Those who were just a hair's breadth away from the top 1000 were venting their despair with impotent rage.

“10……9……8……7……6……5……4……3……2……1！传送。”

All survivors in the 100 world zones vanished instantly, and then each of the virtual worlds collapsed and dissipated, turning everything into nothingness. At the same time, the final rankings of each world zone were made public.

Preliminary selection is over!

The candidate has been selected!

After the preliminary elimination rounds ended, Lu Yunhe was teleported back to the continent belonging to the Qianwu Universe Kingdom.

“Master!” The long-absent voice of the virtual assistant, Delacion, rang out: “When you participated in the competition, the virtual universe blocked all intelligent assistants.”

"It's alright!" Lu Yunhe glanced at the constantly ringing call requests: "Delacion, temporarily disable call requests."

"Yes!"

After turning off external call requests, Lu Yunhe finally agreed to the virtual teleportation of Luo Feng and the others.

"Master!"

As soon as he entered the door, Luo Feng couldn't wait to say, "Master, if I hadn't given away my points to someone else, I almost would have gone straight to the finals."

At this moment, Hong and Lei Shen, who had entered together, couldn't help but twitch their lips when they heard Luo Feng's Versailles-like words, and swallowed back the words they were about to say.

"I only got 10th place!" Hong said expressionlessly.

"I fared even worse, finishing in 1001st place!" Thor couldn't help but wail.

Chapter 90 The Attention of the King of Qianwu Kingdom

"Don't be discouraged. The Genius Battle is just a shortcut for a short period of time. With your talents, you are qualified to join any force in the universe."

Lu Yunhe looked at the wailing Thor and said, "Thor, based on your performance in the Genius Battle, you can go directly to join the Qianwu Dojo first. After a period of accumulation, you should be able to enter the Qianwu Secret Realm, and finally join the five major human forces."

“I understand!” Thor nodded, calming himself down. “Lord Mist also said that it’s best to join a powerful force first to hone your skills. If there’s no chance to rise to the top in one step, then grow step by step.”

"After the preliminary elimination rounds, it will be the arena matches." Lu Yunhe looked at Luo Feng and Hong: "Don't worry about Luo Feng, he has the strength to be among the top geniuses, but Hong, you are in danger."

"My strength!" Hong hesitated for a moment, "I'm fairly confident I can get through the arena matches, but the final battle of the ultimate geniuses, I'm afraid..."

The entire Genius Battle consists of two phases. The first phase involves selecting the top 1000 geniuses from 1008 universe nations to participate in the final battle, and then selecting the top 1000 to join the Virtual Universe Company.

In the first phase, each universe nation is divided into 100 world zones, with the top-ranked player directly participating in the final battle. The 2nd to 1001st ranked players, a total of 100,000, will participate in the arena battles to compete for the remaining 900 spots.

The arena battle also has two stages. First, 100 people are grouped together and 10 are left, for a total of 1 contestants.

Then, 10,000 contestants will engage in one-on-one ring battles, and after four rounds of battles, 625 contestants will be selected.

The final 9375 contestants will engage in one-on-one battles for three years, with each contestant fighting against another 9374 people once to compete for the remaining 275 places.

Although Hong's mindset is very high, it cannot be converted into strength at present. It is already so difficult to win a ranking in the top 1000 of the Qianwu Universe Kingdom, let alone the top 1000 of all the universe kingdoms.